> in which companies dont go about their business, aiming for sustainable growth and a healthy profit, but pivot to whatever unrelated technology (or, more often, bullshit fad) comes next, to prop their stock or to increase their valuation when they're sold.

Meh. You could've said the same thing about companies leveraging dot-com, or going mobile first. All these were a net gain for investors and society.

"The future is now old man."